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[yo_louie]

Hi all, I am new to this board and thought this might be the place to go since search engines are of no help. I am going to be teaching just a very basic web design type class to a group of Elementary School Students (3rd thru 5th grade). (It is volunteer work as part of an afterschool enrichment program).

I am looking for a product that is more a drag and drop tool to add content to individual web pages. Dreamweaver, Homesite, FrontPage, etc. would be a little bit too over the kids' heads. Does anyone have any suggestions as to products that would serve this purpose? The students will most likely be on older Mac's. I know they don't have the typing skills or thinking skills to get too indepth (as I have tried to teach a similar class without the aid of a tool), maybe just the basics of add a background, add pictures, add hyperlinks, add text. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[calliepeck]

I know that yahoo geocities used to provide a WYSIWYG program in their free hosting packages a few years ago. It generates some of the ugliest code you will ever see, but for 8-year-olds, I'm assuming that the goal is not to teach html but to encourage web-expression. Plus you can still work in the code if you want. And you don't have to fully download it onto the computer. Otherwise you can always use the MS Word, Netscape, or Mozilla composers.

[Dan Williamson]

Hey,

You could use various WYSIWYG editors for this, and also try pagemaker it's pretty good for kids.

Also programs like MS Word are good for starting off with as it's easy to do almost anything.

Thanks
Dan

[welsh]

ms publisher would be a good bet